Walking Toronto streets - Front

Another end-to-end exploration of a street - in this case Front Street. It runs from Bayview Avenue (just west of the Don Valley) through the downtown to Bathurst Street. Also part of this map.

Front Street is one of the original streets laid out for the Town of York and it followed the shoreline at that time. Now it is a fair distance from the lake!

This walk starts at the east end (Don Valley) and goes west. Click on any picture to see a big version!

This first picture is actually slightly south of Front at Bayview Avenue. It's a sculpture called "No Shoes"

Heading west, this is looking towards downtown from Front Street between Bayview Avenue and Cherry Street.

51 Division Police Headquarters - Front Street East and Parliament Street. A nicely renovated old warehouse building and very similar to the building I used to work in (see next picture!)

The old entrance to Castek Software at Front just west of Berkeley. The left part of the building (also a bit taller) is still the Canadian Opera Company. Castek unfortunately no longer exists.

Toronto Fire Station 333 (left) and new condos at Princess Street.

There's a library here somewhere - though the entrance is to the left of this picture. Rumour has it that someone I worked with - MO - was responsible for 50% of their business 😀

Inside the St Lawrence Market building.

Gooderham Building (aka Flatiron Building). 'YAGB' - Yet another Gooderham Building - for those who looked at my walk on Bloor, or those who somehow guess that I will walk along Jarvis and see a few more YAGB's.

A very cool fountain west of the Gooderham Building in Berczy Park. Multiple dogs, a bone at the top, and one cat (left of center and at the back of the fountain)!

Meridian Hall. Originally opened as the O'Keefe Centre in 1960. Then the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts (1996), Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (2007), and now (2019) Meridian Hall.

Hockey Hall of Fame! A former Bank of Montreal building. Built in 1885 and was the only building on its block that survived Toronto’s Great Fire in 1904.

'Dominion Public Building'. Formerly Toronto's federal customs clearing house. Neat curving facade.

A few skyscrapers visible at Bay Street looking north. Royal Bank building (gold windows) on the left and TD Trust building on the right foreground.

Union Station. (Should have got a picture inside - beautiful high hall)

The Royal York Hotel (completed 1929). No longer dominating Toronto's skyline like it once did.

Front right is an old industrial building (1918) which is now bars (Loose Moose, Jack Astor's). The smaller darker red building in the middle used to have "Armadillo's" restaurant (great baked potatoes!). And the new building is a Cadillac Fairview office tower.

The CBC building at Front Street West and John Street. Get your photo taken on a bench on the Front Street side with (a statue of) Glenn Gould!

And, of course, another fairly tall building from the 70's.

Looking north up Spadina Avenue from Front Street.

The scale of this new development on the north side of Front west of Spadina Ave is hard to see from a picture. Many condos and office buildings will be here.

South of Front is where GO trains sleep after an exhausting morning of bringing commuters into the city, and prior to taking them home again.

Bathurst Street Bridge over the tracks south of Front. And the far western end of Front Street.

More condos on the NE corner of Front and Bathurst.

And Front Street ends at the Belgian Moon brewery 😀.